October 03, 2017

Don't call him a sniper. Peckerhead Pollock wasn't a sniper. Sniper means one shot, one kill. Pollock delivered area-denial fires to a crowd which didn't know they were being denied...

Gun manufacturers: quit derping all your products for us. Were not stupid. We're not paying S1,400 for a pistol-grip shotgun because you sell apple-crapple to wanna-be "operators". I don't want a precision rifle with anything on it but a sling and good glass, maybe a bipod. I don't need a fancy handguard, I don't need to attach any other crap to my rifle, I am just looking for a rifle that shoots sub-MOA, because on a good day, I can shoot that well myself.

Gun industry inventors: quit trying to be the one to outfox the NFA. Wanna dump the NFA? Good idea, work on getting the kitty together that's bigger than the Left can accumulate to keep it. Can't raise that much money? Then S.T.F.U.

Leftards: You aren't going to carry off a National ban on AR-15s. Quit trying. Every time you Blood Dance, you lose some people from your flock. Are you ALL idiots?

Hey, NFL commish Goodell: If we watch your League's play, we do it to see the best football players play the game. We DON'T watch to see the Thug Culture extolled. Enjoy the demise of your brand, Goodell: American Values will always come before football, no matter how well played your game is.

To President Trump and Secretary of State Tillerson: If the Only Fat Punk in North Korea is actually talking to you, just cut to the chase and ask him how many boatloads of wheat he wants for the three Americans he has hostage. Of course, that assumes that you pols are willing to pay an asshole like him some ransom...and if you do, that we won't remember it next Election...

Hey, President Trump (yes, I am, in fact, picking on you), your selection of Tom Price was a bad choice for HHS. How is it possible that you overlooked the fact that the man had ZERO personal discipline when it came to following a book of work rules?

Finally, if you have blacksmith arms like the gun writer in the picture, by all means buy a Coonan MOT-10 10mm 1911 pistol. It WILL kill what you can hit with it. If you don't have the Hulk's arm-strength, you might consider just getting a decent 9mm and practicing double-taps...

March 25, 2015

Overt racism is now a tool of the Left, and that's too bad, because it's being used the most by the hard Left, by the Marxist revolutionaries here.

Racism happens when any power of any sort is allowed to exist for the purpose of advancing an ethnic cause beyond a bright line of ethnic equality. Equality is a simple construct, but when it changes into racial advocacy (one race is superior in any way, or one race is suppressed in any way), then equality morphs into racism.

There is race war in this Nation. Everyone is involved. No one may choose not to participate. That's the choice of the current bringers of race war, the Marxist blacks and their allies. The allies include, but may not be limited to: radical hispanics ("la raza"), the hippie street punks ("occupoopers"), the anarchists, politically-radical techies ("anonymous"), violent environmentalists (ELF, ALF, PETA) and the Congressional Black Caucus. The black Marxists have Enablers also. Chief among them is the Democratic Party, which as currently led, accepts black racism and may even be promoting it.

The simple objective for all these groups and for their conflict is not any sort of racial equality, it is racial SUPERIORITY. Yes, whites and blacks already ARE equal before and under the law, but that is not good enough for the black Marxists. They believe that the white race must be made to pay "reparations", not to force equality, but to bring the blacks superior political power. These reparations take many forms, including gerrymandered Congressional voting districts, indulgences for blacks committing/threatening violence to attain racist goals, and the enforced "white guilt" we see now as official educational guidance policy ("check yourself for White Privilege"). The reparations have no ending date, ever, and that is what makes them racist.

Finally, we now have a resurgent "Black Panther" organization. This group arose in the 1960s, along with Fidel Castro's communist revolution succeeding in Cuba, and Che Guevara's exporting of violent Marxism around the world. The Marxism outlived Guevara, of course. The Black Panthers became resurgent after 30 years of quiescence when their racism was seen and recorded in Philly in the '08 election, but the new Obama regime gave them an indulgence.

When the race war comes to YOU, to your neighborhood, to your children's schools, how will YOU respond? Think about it now, because you will have to react very quickly when when the "social justice warriors" are on your doorstep.

May 05, 2013

...of the day is Danica Patrick. On about lap 40 or so of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at the Talladega super-speedway, 13 cars in front of her started crashing at 200 mph. She did the best job of driving though a "big one" at speed that I have seen since Tony Stewart pulled off the same feat in the Daytona 500 a few years back.

Somebody's gotta post a You Tube vid of that drive from the POV of her in-car camera. I'll put it up here when I find it, but the race is only half over as I write.

August 13, 2012

...baby you should want to go, but you won't. The Rivrdog and the Rivr-Doctor-Dau will be tent-camping along the John Day River in North-Central Oregon, utilizing my Wilderness Unlimited membership that gets me capmping privileges on a ranch with several miles of river frontage. The John Day is full of clear-water smallmouth bass and a few to maybe a surge of Summer Steelhead plus the occasional trout. Red Flag Posted, so it will be propane only to cook over, no fire, and no moon, either. Search-lights are in order, and I'll have my see-forever 3,000,000 candella one with me, and some smaller ones too. This light is equivalent to a PAIR of aircraft landing lights, and it's 7-amp-hour battery lasts maybe 5 minutes. There won't be Internet, so I'll use my tablet to take notes, and if I feel like it, share them on my return to civilization later in the week.

There'll be a Lever Rifle in the gunrack of the Little Black Truck, and revolvers on our hips. Most locals are used to that, and know it just means you want to be left alone, and we will be.

Hope I get some fish, but if I don't, there's enough rabbit up there to fill the belly. Colonel Lee and his potion will take away the hungars if we don't find food.

July 29, 2012

So seats are going begging at Olympic events in London. The Brit Olympic authorities are embarrassed over this latest organizational gaffe**, so they are pressing the Brit military, most of which is on duty in London during the Games, to fill the empty seats so as not to give the appearance of FUBAR (a British expression, too!)

Thanks, Sky News, you will take a hit for reporting the truth, but you DID report it...

Sounds like Big Government can't organize either a two-car funeral OR an Olympiad in London these days.

I can hear the military briefing now.....

LEFTenant: "SERGeant, enter the stadium by the military gate and report, with all your men, to section Six Alpha."

Sergeant: Very Good, Sir, and what are my men to do there?

LEFTenant: SERGeant, if you haven't figured out yet how to sit on your arse, you must have gotten those stripes from Ladbroke's as payment for a bloody wager."

Sergeant (incredulous): Yessir, but am I to understand that my duty is to sit my men down and watch the Games?

LEFTenant: SERGeant, a common clerk (Brits pronounce this word as "clark") would understand my order. Do I need to repeat it?

Sergeant: No sir. CORPoral, stand the men to, we have a mission, likely from the Queen 'erself, more glory for the Regiment....and to think we let that Yank toff get off to Israel, what's 'is name? Romney. 'E did this in his sleep better than we've bloody well done it wide awake....

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** There was apparently an earlier gaffe on Opening Day, in which it was discovered that there were too few security officers to man the entry checkpoints for the Opening Ceremonies, so seats went unfilled until the military could be called in to sit in those seats, as well.

July 10, 2012

...is blaming them for starting forest fires. Check out this newspaper article from the AssPress byline, but apparently published by USAToday. If you search, you'll find it has been picked up by quite a few liberloon media, and edited to suit their space.

I direct your attention to the paragraph beginning with "Utah officials..."

"Utah officials believe steel-jacketed bullets are the most likely culprits, given one shot that hits a rock and throws off sparks can ignite surrounding vegetation and quickly spread."

That, folks, is called "layers of editorial oversight". There are NO steel-jacketed bullets anywhere, NONE. A bogeyman has just been raised up here. Now, there ARE some steel-CORE bullets, most militaries have made them over the years, and that includes the US military contracting for the XM855 5.56 NATO round.

Let's look at the physics involved, because that's SCIENCE, unlike the "editorial license" seen above which invented an object which doesn't exist (primarily because steel bullets would wear out a gun barrel in just a few rounds, that's why).

Steel will emit sparks when struck against SOME rocks very hard (as in a steel-core bullet striking hard enough to expose the core). For this to happen, the bullet has to hit at a very steep angle, pretty much equivalent to shooting at a vertical cliff of solid basalt or granite. If the bullet hits at a shallow angle, it will be deflected, but it's COPPER jacket will not spark. In fact, workers in industries where there can be an explosive atmosphere present must use non-sparking tools, most of which have a percentage of copper in their alloys to prevent sparking.

So, the conditions have to be exactly right for a steel-core bullet to create a spark. Next, we have to have a fuel for the fire. That fuel must be of exactly the right make-up to flare up with only one spark hitting it, and stay alight. How many of you out there have started a fire with the most combustible material around, dried Spanish Moss? I have, and while it is excellent tinder, it is VERY hard to start with a single spark. Probably somewhere on the order of one success out of 50 or more tries with a sparking tool is required. The areas we're talking about don't have Spanish Moss growing in them, though. They have some dry brush, but not the kind that can be started with one spark.

So, we have a tool which makes one solitary spark only very occasionally, and a fuel which is only VERY, VERY occasionally sparked well enough to burn, and what do we have? We have a statistical improbability, that's what. Do we ban an activity based on a statistical improbability? That's a political question and this is a science article, so let's keep going with science before we adress the politics.

OK, smarty pants, you say, there must be SOME way guns can start fires. You're right, liberloon, there IS a way, and that way is to use a bullet DESIGNED to start fires. That would be a TRACER round. The tracer round is built with a flaring compound in the base of the bullet so the shooter can track the path of the bullet with the naked eye. That compound is ignited by the powder charge and it stays lit for maybe 300-400 yards. If that bullet happens to strike most anything flammable, it will create some dust which will be set alight by the flaring compound in the bullet. Maybe one in ten tracer bullets fired into very dry brush will result in starting s small, momentary fire, which might grow depending on the wind, etc.

Research into this "guns start fires" hysteria shows it to have started after the Byers Canyon, UT fire back in March. It was caused by a person shooting TRACER AMMUNITION, which had already been banned. It happened at a shooting range.

Jump back to the AssPress article, now read the paragraph beginning with "Statistics on..."

"Statistics on wildfires caused by firearms are incomplete because the federal government does not list shooting as a cause on its fire reports."

So, we must ban an activity upon which the Feds don't even ATTEMPT to gather data?

This attempt to ban shooting on Federal Lands, my friends, is what we call "jumping to conclusions".

If Bubba the gun-nut went out and sprinkled a field full of gunpowder, he probably couldn't set it alight with his bullets, unless they were tracers.

Bottom line, this is all about trying a back-door gun control ploy. Let me think, didn't that just happen?

Oh, yes, the Fast & Furious gunwalking scandal which could yet bring down Obama himself. Does it seem to you like the Feds are "doubling down" on lying to get support for gun control here? It does to me.

June 14, 2012

The man is one of my heroes. He learned the science of human muscular output better than any, learned how to train to get his max performance, and the result is that he can do better on a bike (and now in triathlons) than almost anyone on the planet. He is a cancer survivor, and one of the world's greatest philanthropists. There are few great men of this era, but he is one of those few.

The best always incur the jealosy of their inferiors, and so Lance has these problems.

Check the creds of the US Anti-doping Agency, which appears to have been put together for the purpose of discrediting Lance Armstrong.

Lance says he has taken over 500 drug tests, making him the single most tested athlete in the entire history of sport, and he has passed every test.

Jealosy is a base emotion, it is an emotion to be avoided, but it is widely used. Just ask any Democratic Party politician.

April 01, 2012

MLS, supposedly just a sporting outfit dedicated to trying to raise American Soccer to the level of say, the English Premier league (which is unliely to happen in MY lifetime), seriously tripped on it's PR this week with it's "Show Racism a Red Card" PR-blitz. This effort, timed to take shameless advantage of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin, has no place in any display of sports organization.

First of all, the Martin/Zimmerman investigation is incomplete, but as information leaks out, it appears that Martin may well have been a race-baiter, and not Zimmerman. Just like the Rodney King affair, the intitial action was not indicative of the heart of the principal. Rodney King was a thief and a thug. He didn't deserve getting beaten down, but the Nation didn't deserve the race-rioting that was perpetrated in his name, either.

No, the Portland Timbers, a newer franchise in the struggling MLS, and one which has been broadly supported on the taxpayer dime (to the demise of a 100-year-old AAA baseball franchise, from which the Portland Beavers were booted and to which, with an expensive stadium remodeling cost footed by John Q. Taxpayer, the Timbers moved), can't afford to make these mistakes.

I was still on the fence as to whether I supported the franchise. I had not gotten over the cruel decision to boot out the baseball team, but I was warming to the wide acceptance of the Timbers in the local area, and also, the fact that I am one of the few of my generation of Americans who understands the game well enough to support it. I played soccer for about 9 or 10 straight years as a youth, both here and in England as a student, back in the 1950s before many US kids ever even heard of the game. I supported my youngest daughter when she played the game, and coached her into a winning goalkeeper (I was a keeper most of my soccer career).

I'm dedicating myself to opposing the franchise known as the Portland Timbers now, though. Their stupid attempt to interfere in racial politics in this country is not only absurd, it goes against the heart of international soccer, which is the single most multi-racial and inter-racial enterprise on the planet.

Read the last few paragraphs of the report of last night's game, which was a loss for the local lads. The team lost the game, and the team lost me, and others as well, with their PR gaffe.

October 24, 2011

If you're gonna drink it blended, you can't go too far wrong drinking that which is imbibed at Buckingham Palace. So, I just poured two fingers of Famous Grouse, a smooth Scots Whisky.

It's to help me get over the equipment-failure shocks to MY exchequer, not the Queen's, that hit me today.

First failure was my oven. Of late, the gudwife has claimed that she couldn't bake pastry without burning it on the bottom, and that the oven was at fault. Well, I could and did cook a few roasts in there with no trouble, so I was skeptical, thinking equipment mis-use. She never gave up though, and stayed on my butt about the oven, so today I had a tech in to look it over. He found that the temperature sensing array, of the old liquid-metal type, was too old to work properly, and was causing too wide of a temperature swing in the oven, which burns the ass off the gudwife's fine pastries. He called in for parts to replace the sensor array, but they are not made any longer. End of the line for the Jenn-Aire Oven. Sic semper Il Fornaio.

Ka-Ching! That will be at least a Large Note for a new oven, and of course, she wants to shop in the $1,500-2,000 range. GAAAAAAHHHH! Jeebus!Nicola Tesla invented this equipment, I believe, they were still improving steam locomotives when he did, and Herr Rudolph Diesel hadn't built HIS first oil-thrasher locomotive yet. How can it be so expensive for a replacement with this old tech? I pumped the technician for info on what's good in the market and what he fixes a lot, and got that info, so now I'm going to look at Frigidaire ovens. I will stay away from LG, and their rebadged stuff sold at Sears under the Kenmore label, even though it was on sale today for 50% off...

So, the tech collects my check for his hour fee and off he goes. No sooner has he left than the gudwife snivels, "Hon-eeee, the dryer's broken." GAAAAAHHHHH! on a stick! I eyeball the dryer, and it is toast. Push the start button and it won't stay running, and if I hold the button in, there's no heat. I run to my puter, and key in "Fixya.com", which is my go-to problem solver, and yes, Fixya comes up with another miracle, a diagnosis for the exact model of Kenmore/Whirlpool dryer with the exact malfunction symptoms. I do a little more work and download a repair checklist, break out the tools and get to work. It's the "even-heat board", a circuit board similar to the temp control board in a gas furnace. I check with the local giant appliance parts warehouse, W.L. May, and they have THREE of them...hmmm... these must fail a lot. A long trip across town to the warehouse, another cheque on my exchequer for $130. They won't give me a core charge back because the old board has a visible toasted spot on it), back home to install the new board, clean up the machine whilst it's apart, and re-assemble. It works, and I've respected the A/C Gods, so I'm not fried, but I REALLY do deserve this Highland Dew...

GAAAAAHHHHHH! Two fingers may be okay for typing, but not for drinking...BARKEEP! Hit me again!

I'm ready for some Football!

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AAR: The Baltimore-Jacksonville NFL game sucked, with all the offensive scoring being from kickers. I shoulda watched Game Five of the Series, which was more interesting.